Struggling when no one knows is one of the worst things. When you want to tell someone, but you don’t know who, and you don’t know how. It feels as if you are the only one in the world and no one will understand you. I’ve had that feeling so many times and I’m so tired of it. Why won’t someone look into my eyes and realise that something is wrong? Why won’t someone not believe me when I say that “I’m okay”?

People always say “It gets better when you tell someone you need help”. I never believed it, I believed I should suffer in silence and wait for things to look up. Well surprise surprise… they never did. It didn’t “get easier”, it got heavier. I was carrying all this hurt and pain by myself. I thought I could handle it, I couldn’t.

So to the person I finally reached out to, thank you.

-Box